Chapter 954 Sir, Times Have Really Changed!

"Although Milicic's athletic ability has declined a lot this season, his better strength makes him more advantageous when playing against many big centers who are not very strong. However, Yao Ming's strength is not as 'thin' as his current body looks."

"This is normal. Although Yao Ming has lost weight now, even in Yao Ming's rookie season, Yao Ming's confrontation ability is not something that the so-called heavy center can bully."

"People who don't have the strength to confront can't give O'Neal so many blocks."

Speaking of Yao Ming's story, Kenny Smith and Barkley are "well-known". After all, this legendary Chinese center is really a point in their lives that they can never bypass.

Before Yes appeared, this Chinese player was the most magical Chinese player they knew.

Even now with Yes.

Yao Ming's magical aura has not dissipated, and he has even become stronger than before.

This Chinese center is really a perfect center player now.

After losing weight, Yao Ming seems to have reduced his strength.

But in fact, the decline is not that much.

Especially in the current NBA, with fewer and fewer heavy centers like O'Neal.

Even if Yao Ming's strength is slightly lower than that of the heavy one, he still has an advantage.

After all, his height of 2.26 meters is there, which is at least 10 centimeters higher than most NBA centers.

Milicic wants to suppress Yao Ming with his own strength, which is really too simple.

After the setback at the beginning, old Nelson obviously realized that he had misjudged Yao Ming's current strength level.

And this is the most uncomfortable part.

Originally you thought that the problem you wanted to solve was difficult enough, but in fact, this problem is more difficult than you thought.

Originally you thought you loved your first love very much.

In fact, you love your first love more than you thought!

It's just painful and happy.

On the court, Yao Ming was grabbing Milicic and fucking hard, while on the other side, when the Seattle Supersonics attacked, the Rockets' defense was also stretched in the fast-moving offense of Yes.

In order to allow Yao Ming and Roy to have the physical strength for the whole game.

Adelman slowed down the team's offensive and defensive rhythm very much.

In the current league that pursues speed, the Rockets are simply going against the trend.

But there is really no way.

The Rockets can now rely on Yao Ming and Roy as pillars.

On the court, it is really fun to watch Yao Ming abuse Milicic.

But without Roy's support from outside, Yao Ming, no matter how strong he is, can't abuse Milicic.

He can't imagine Aaron Brooks or other outside players passing the ball to Yao Ming.

Yao Ming is the tactical pillar of the team.

Roy is the tactical core of the team.

Yao Ming needs Roy's support to exert his maximum energy.

Roy can organize and score easily on the court, which requires Yao Ming's support.

These two people support the current Rockets system.

These two people are indispensable to the Rockets.

There is not even a replacement.

When Artest and McGrady were there, McGrady could replace Yao Ming's support to a certain extent, and Artest and McGrady could replace Roy's support to a certain extent.

The Rockets had such a deep lineup and such luxurious rotation at that time, but now they are so stretched.

Many people say that the Rockets still have excellent players such as Gerald Wallace, Aaron Brooks and Scola, and the team's strength will not decline too much.

The overall strength has indeed not declined as much as imagined.

But the core strength and the toughness of the strong dialogue have declined unimaginably. When McGrady and Artest were there, it was hard to imagine that the Rockets would collapse in the fourth quarter.

It was precisely because of the tragedy of the collapse in the fourth quarter last season that the Rockets missed the playoffs that Adelman learned his lesson and went against the trend this season.

As a former trend-setter, he didn't want to.

But there was really no way.

It can be said that now the Rockets and any fast-paced game in the league are a battle of rhythm control.

Fast and slow rhythm control.

Before the Rockets lost to the Warriors, the Lakers, and the Mavericks, many people only saw the Rockets' collapse and were beaten out of garbage time.

But as a head coach, Adelman certainly saw something deeper.

The Rockets were defeated because of the rhythm.

Roy lost the game in the rhythm control of Curry, Nash, and Kidd...

This is not Roy's fault.

Roy is not a player who can only play slowly.

Roy is very versatile, the Yellow Mamba, who can play fast or slow. When the Rockets had to abandon his fast side because of the lack of depth in the core lineup of the team, and could only play slowly by half of his martial arts, when Roy faced others, regardless of whether the opponent was strong or weak, Roy himself was not at full strength and could not do so.

This is the most difficult part for him and the Rockets now. Aaron Brooks, Scola, Gerald Wallace, these players are not weak, but they can only play side games and cannot play tactics around them.

The Rockets can only rely on Yao Ming and Roy, and the two cannot be separated. They need to be used together to be the strongest.

And neither of them is a physical maniac.

This directly leads to the Rockets having only two choices: to choose persistence or to choose to release quickly.

Last season, he chose to release quickly, and the team finally collapsed.

This season, he chose to persist, and the team still started with a collapse...

Looking at the offensive rhythm driven by Yes on the court, in the rhythm driven by Yes, Durant, Rondo, Millsap, Milicic fired like crazy, and Adelman was very confused.

In order to slow down the rhythm, Roy can't really shoot some unreasonable outside shots like Kobe.

In order to slow down the rhythm, Yao Ming's offensive choices can't be arbitrary.

Your offense is very cautious, but the opponent's offense is very unbridled.

In the end, your players are uncomfortable and the effect is not good, and the rhythm of the game is still driven up.

The Rockets have done this dish to the extreme, and they really have done it to the extreme.

Before the great changes in the NBA, the combination of Roy and Yao Ming was a trend-setting powerhouse in any era.

But in the past two seasons, this Rockets has become a self-rescuer drowned by the trend.

In the game between Seattle Supersonics and Rockets, the Rockets fans were actually only excited for the first one or two minutes.

Because in the following games, the score difference between Supersonics and Rockets is really getting bigger and bigger.

Roy has been trying very hard to control the rhythm of the game.

But this kind of slow-paced game is really not his area of ​​expertise.

It's not that he can't.

As the Black Mamba, Roy is as versatile as Kobe.

Kobe can also organize in the game and get a triple-double in the game, but this is not their full-time job.

The strongest Kobe or the strongest Roy is definitely not the Kobe or Roy who organizes and gets a triple-double in the game, but the Kobe and Roy who can score as they please on the court and use their offense to drive their teammates and the team as they please.

In the Rockets' games now, Roy's organizational task is too heavy.

Adelman also knows this, but he has no way to use Aaron Brooks to share Roy's organizational responsibility.

Last season was OK, Aaron Brooks was OK, because last season he and the Rockets chose the biggest release, which was fast and brought up the rhythm, but this season the Rockets are slow and require persistence, and Aaron Brooks' game accelerator can't be used at this time.

It can be said that Roy was already very uncomfortable last season.

This season, Roy played even more uncomfortable in the game.

On the court, Roy finally suppressed the rhythm and assisted Yao Ming to score, while on the other side of the Seattle Supersonics, Milicic did not pause at all. After a quick baseline ball to Yes, Yes made a long throw across half court. Durant, who was on a fast break, received the ball just after passing the center circle, and took several long strides with his long legs. He had already killed to the basket in the stunned eyes of Gerald Wallace.

Durant's long legs and stride, coupled with his current strength and the fact that his speed, explosiveness and agility did not decrease after the confrontation, he leaned against the defensive player before receiving the ball, and then took a long stride to the basket by breaking the defense. No one could stop him at all.

Scola has been trying very hard to retreat and defend.

But his defensive ability can't support him to defend a 2.1-meter big man playing the Euro step!

And it's such a big stride, such a high-speed Euro step!

After easily passing Scola, Durant also pulled a pole that was actually unnecessary...

Looking at Durant's pouting and shrugging after completing the layup under the basket, the Rockets fans at the Toyota Center had dull expressions on their faces, just like the Rockets players such as Gerald Wallace on the court.

Watching Durant raise his right hand and point at Yes in the other half of the court after celebrating on the court.

Once again, the entire Toyota Center was filled with the voices of Seattle Supersonics fans and coconut fans.

"Yes! Yes! Yes!"

"Too brutal, Yes's fast break pass in this game is still so brutal!"

Barkley is very excited now, while Kenny Smith on the side opened his mouth and didn't know what to say.

Because he really didn't know what to say.

This season, Yes's fast break is really brutal.

There are many such fast break scenes in almost every game.

The most typical examples are Durant's direct penetration and Rondo's three-point fast break outside the three-point line.

"Garfield's Hurricane swept the NBA again, and once again swept the entire NBA in another way!"

Barkley's voice became more and more excited, while Kenny Smith's mood became more and more heavy.

He had high expectations for the game between the Rockets and the Supersonics.

The Rockets have been the regular season killer of the Supersonics in the past few seasons.

But this game clearly told him that the era of the Rockets restraining the Supersonics is over.

Yes, who controls the ball, is really strong!

In the past, when Yes was increasingly valued and his defense became stronger, Yes's own Garfield Hurricane had actually disappeared from the NBA for a long time.

But now, after Yes took control of the ball, he attracted the defense to his side, but reproduced Garfield's Hurricane with the hands of his teammates!

Rondo and Durant, who are very eye-catching on the court this season, are like the two tentacles that Yes extends after being heavily defended by the opponent.

The fast break of the Supersonics this season is very eye-catching.

Media experts and fans all praise Durant and Rondo's fast break to Yes.

But Yes knows very well that the reason why the Supersonics have such a strong fast break performance this season is mainly because of the characteristics and strengths of Durant and Rondo.

These two wing guys are really strong.

When Durant was thin and not so tall before, his speed, explosiveness and agility seemed to be average and not outstanding.

But when Durant grew taller and stronger, his speed, explosiveness and agility still did not decrease, and combined with his weight and height, this is quite outstanding.

Add to that his unique ability to dribble with long strides and play tricks in high-speed dribbling.

Tsk tsk, it is simply a holy object that can be ranked alongside James in the fast break world!

As for Rondo, his touch that appears when he says it appears, maybe his speed sense is not that fast, but his sense of rhythm is very strong. He throws it when he says he wants to, and he doesn't feel any pressure or urgency.

The Rockets are the slowest team in the league this season, and the Supersonics are the fastest team in the league this season.

When the rhythm is completely on the Supersonics side, the Rockets don't get it at all.

After falling behind in the first quarter, the Rockets have never caught up.

The score difference is getting bigger and bigger.

Until the third quarter, the score on the field between the two sides has become 120 to 90.

Roy and the Rockets are already trying to control it, but the rhythm of the game is still on the Supersonics side.

After three quarters, the game has been declared over.

Yao Ming still showed his strong dominance in this game, 12 of 16 shots, and 34 points in three quarters.

But such scores and performances did not even cause a ripple in the rhythm and torrent of this game.

149 to 110!

This is the final score between the Seattle Supersonics and the Rockets.

When the game was over, Roy, Yao Ming and Adelman on the sidelines looked at the bloody numbers on the scoreboard and couldn't believe it.

In just two years.

The Rockets, once the strongest team in history, have fallen to such a situation...

"Some of the Rockets' individual players have advantages in one-on-one situations, but in this era led by Yes, the advantages of personal strength need to be placed in a strong team to play a role."

Jerry West watched the results on TV with satisfaction.

Rondo became the scoring champion again in this game.

Yes got a triple-double in this game again.

But none of this matters.

What matters is that the Rockets played a heart-breaking game.

A game that made everyone feel the changes of the times.

"The times have really changed!"

This kind of personal powerlessness will come sooner or later. Jerry West had already thought of it when the Heat led the league astray.

Personal strength is meaningless in front of a bunch of superstars.

Only a team can defeat a team!

However, what he didn't expect was that such an era of change was not brought about by the Heat, Lakers and Grizzlies.

It was actually brought about by Yes and his civilian teammates.

Yes used his organization and passing to raise the strength of his teammates and his team to a level that was stronger than those teams that were in a group!

"Incredible!"

Sure enough, this was the player he had always coveted but could not get.

However, although there was no way to get Yes, he got a player who could replace Yes to some extent.

Thinking of the No. 30 player in the team, Jerry West's expression was excited.

He liked the feeling of building a team from scratch.

Turning a team that was almost zero into a full-level team was the greatest pleasure for him to stay in the league.

He and old Nelson were both enjoying the fun of basketball, but old Nelson was on the court and he was off the court.

And the target of the two...

seemed to be the same person.

"Little Ye, your team is very strong."

This was a game that made Yao Ming face the reality and crush all the expectations and fairy tales in his heart.

Such a game was more bitter than the previous games.

But in the end, Yao Ming calmed down and gave Yesi his blessing.

"This season, maybe we can really see the first Chinese dynasty in the NBA."

The first Chinese dynasty in the NBA?

Yesi nodded.

"Definitely."